Websites of major Russian airports hacked, displaying calls to evade mobilization

The websites of major Russian airports have been hacked, with calls to evade mobilization shown instead.

Unknown persons hacked the sites of a number of major Russian airports and posted anti-war banners calling on Russians to evade mobilization, the Telegram channel DC8044 F33d reported on September 21.

The pages of Pulkovo airport (St. Petersburg), Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Ufa, Blagoveshchensk and Samara airports were all hacked.

On the homepages of the airports, hackers published a banner with the slogan "Crazy old man is going all-in, his bet is our lives!"

"Ukrainians took away in three hours what took us three months. Now (the Kremlin is) mobilizing ‘fresh meat’ to bomb peaceful objects," the text on the banner reads.

The creators of the banner also said that the Second World War was won thanks to the U.S. Lend-Lease – and in this war, the U.S. Lend-Lease is going to Ukraine.

"Ukraine has already won, the question is how much we’re going to lose," the text of the banner reads.

The message urged Russian citizens not to go out in order not to receive a conscription notice. If called up to the army, Russians are urged to surrender with their equipment.

The websites of some of these airports had resumed their work, while others were displaying an error.